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Why is the ping on microsoft.com so bad? [closed]

I'm getting these ping results for microsoft.com and outlook.com: Arthurs-iMac-2:~ arthur$ ping microsoft.com PING microsoft.com (65.55.58.201): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request ...
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Bash Run command for certain time?

I am making bash script for my use. How can i run a command for certain time, like 20 second and terminate command? I tried a lot of solutions but nothing works, I also tried timeout command with no ...
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What is a so-called non-informational hop in a tracert listing?

My surfing was slow so I did a tracert to ebay.com and microsoft.com and some universities. Nine times out of ten, the 3rd external hop timed out. Once when it did not time out its IP address was ...
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Is the default time for ssh-add configurable in sshd_config?

Is the default time for ssh-add configurable in sshd_config or does it always have to be added on the command line?
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Timeout in whois command

Unable to figure out the problem with whois command. Whenever i give any query to whois command it gives timeout error. I also learned about jwhois command but it seems it is also getting similar ...
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Cant get E-Mails from POP3

We have about 20 Computers in our network some running imap some pop3. Since yesterday 2 of the pop3 computer wont recieve any E-mails,sending works just fine, using outlook i get a ...
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OpenVPN connects but all pages timeout and won't load

A friend of mine setup a VPN to connect to his server using openvpn. I installed "network-manager-openvpn" (I'm in ubuntu) and I created a new VPN connection using the certificates he sent me. The VPN ...
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What could cause a php timeout to occur before the timeout duration has lapsed?

I have a WAMP server running in Windows 2008 in Amazon EC2. Several users are having difficulty uploading files to the site, and are receiving a PHP timeout error. From apache access log: x.x.x.x - ...
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Connection/pinging from/to WLAN

Sorry for the vague title, I'm finding it hard to describe the problem accurately in a few words (but that's probably because of me, English is not my native language). I'm trying to send a file from ...
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How to delay incorrect password timeout to 2nd or 3rd attempt (Windows 8)?

I currently have a Windows 8 laptop. Normally, when I type in my password to log in, it does so immediately. However, when I type in an incorrect password, it takes several seconds for it to tell me ...
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Why Windows 7 / PuTTY drop TCP connections even on very brief outages?

I have a small local network that piggybacks on a captive WiFi, and I use ssh on OS X with -oServerAliveInterval=240 and PuTTY 0.62 on Windows 7 Professional for establishing connections to my Linode, ...
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apt-get install: Error: Timeout was reached?

What has gone wrong if this error message appears AFTER apt-get has finished downloading and installing packages? ... Processing triggers for menu ... Error: Timeout was reached Edit: This ...
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Cannot SSH into ANY host (outgoing) on entire local network

I'm having a rather strange issue with my network here, and I'm hoping you guys might be able to help me out. As of recently, over the past few weeks or so, I've been noticing some strange problems ...
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Acer Monitor connected to Imac scrolls through display options too fast for IMac to send back signal?

I recently purchased a 2011 Intel Imac running Mountain Lion. I hooked up an Acer H243H monitor to it using a thunderbolt to HDMI converter. I also have a separate Windows machine plugged into the ...
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vsftp upload timeout on ubuntu

I have set up VSFTPD on my Ubuntu 12.04. Nearly everthing is working fine. Connecting, authentication, retrieving directory listings, downloadings files. All works as expected. My problem is the file ...
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Windows command line time limit

How might I go about limiting the execution time of a command line program in windows? I know in linux there is timeout/timelimit available, but I have been unable to find similar utilities for ...
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wget “giving up” — closed fd 3

I apologize in advance for being dense but I can't figure out why wget is "giving up". Here is the command I'm using. wget --debug --tries 1 --read-timeout=900 --timeout=0 ...
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pscp connection time out

Trying to copy from Ubuntu Server to my Windows 7 machine. SSH'd into the server using Putty, navigated to the directory containing my file and ran the command: pscp -P 2222 FileToCopy.txt ...
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Service recovery not triggered on “A timeout was reached” error for a .NET service?

A C# service that I have authored will occasionally not automatically start on VMs that are booting up -- we see the "A timeout was reached while waiting for the service to connect" entry in the Event ...
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Can I have different auto-dismount timeout values for different volumes

I have a couple of truecrypt volumes that I work with. I'd like one to stay mounted indefinitely, while the other times out after X minutes of idle time. From what I've seen, truecrypt's ...
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FTP client connecting successfully but times out on LIST command on Windows 7, while working fine on XP

I have a device supporting FTP, connected to the office internal network via a router. Not sure it matters, but the device is Nano-10. I followed their user manual, downloaded FileZilla and ...
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Stop bootloader from timing out and choosing default partition?

I have Ubuntu 12.04 dual-booted with Windows 7, and I am using the Ubuntu boot loader. I'm sure many of you are familiar with the fact that after 10 seconds or so, it boots into the default partition. ...
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Unstable ssh connections in to Ubuntu

I have Ubuntu 12.04 Server as my web host and mac os x as my work machine. I have troubles while connecting to host by ssh Sometimes i can ssh successfully and fast, but sometimes it says connection ...
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Firefox Connection timeout for certain server

I am looking to modify timeout value in firefox for certain servers. For example on a site if there is google-analytic and that is not responding within 10 sec it should timeout for my browser and ...
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Raid HBA : how to set scsi command timeout on mac os X to work-around Raid card bugs?

every now and then, my Raid card (areca 1680-ix) throws kernel[0]: Areca RAID volume scsi command timeout, kick out by driver(target=1 lun=0) for no apparent reason except heavy i/o. I believe ...
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no response when I ping my website, but I can still access it?

Sorry, this may be a dumb question, but I noticed something weird when I went to terminal and typed ping -o mysite.com and I get the message... Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 but when I visit my ...
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In PFSense, how do I download something that takes more time than the browser timeout?

I need to download something from a machine running PFSense, but because of an administrator imposed timeout (20 minutes), downloading via the browser is impossible. What (if any) ways are there for ...
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Is there a timeout setting for resolving Windows shortcuts to executable files?

If you right-click or press Alt+Enter on a shortcut, Windows normally displays the context menu or Properties dialog right away, even if the shortcut is broken and points to a file or directory that ...
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Is there any way to reduce the timeout when accessing a network resource in Windows?

I have an app that needs to regularly (1 sec) read a file across the network. Occasionally, the network fails me, and the app can't read the file. Problem is, the app hangs for a very long time each ...
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Frequent network connectivity loss/timeout

I have a Windows 7 64-bit machine connecting via Ethernet to an ADSL Router. The last few days I noticed that watching any online streams would stall repeatedly. I ran a continuous ping test against ...
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All internet requests in Windows time out

So, I've run into a very strange problem with my home wireless network. Previously, at seemingly random times, the router seemed to disconnect all wireless hosts and cause all of the wired hosts to ...
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chrome socks proxy through ssh forwarding timeouts

I'm attempting to forward all traffic through from Google Chrome through a SSH tunnel. When Firefox is configured to use the tunnel, it works. When chrome is launched with the proxy args appended, it ...
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why does my python cron job time out?

I have a long cron job running a python script in CENTOS, but for some reason it seems to timeout or otherwise end without completion. the job runs fine when executed straight from bash, but seems to ...
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Constant network drop between two XP machines

I am not sure when this started happening or why, but I have a home office running: a "server" XP machine with an external hard drive attached to it via USB, and my working machine, also an XP ...
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How to set wget to timeout after downloading more than a fixed duration

I want wget to (attempt to) start downloading, then if isn't done after 10 seconds, I want it to give up. wget --timeout 10 http://url Seems like a reasonable try, but it seems like it only sets ...
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Wireless randomly cuts out for a few seconds

I have two laptops in front of me, running continuous pings to my gateway (router) and to google. One computer pings both targets fine and doesn't time out. The other computer, an Asus G73JW laptop, ...
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Windows TCP timeout

Is there on windows any default timeout for tcp connection? So when no answere is received the connection would be closed. Why im asking is that on one machine the connection is closed afther 5 ...
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How do I make use of NDT results to fix a network timeout issues?

I've been experiencing a significant slow down of my home internet connection. ISP sent over some engineers and they didn't think there was an issue with the setup or the connection. All they did was ...
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Just can't seem to finish particular file downloads. Utorrent, Skype, etc. No firewall, no AV

Problem: I've been trying to download files from the Internet and some of them are getting stuck in a certain percentage (e.g. uTorrent.exe stops at 83%). I don't have a firewall, I'm pretty sure ...
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Adobe Reader download timeout (FTP & HTTP)

The following downloads are timing out on 3 different machines on our network: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.0/en_US/AdbeRdr1010_en_US.msi ...
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How to turn down the timeout between prefix key and command key in tmux?

My ~/.tmux.conf: set -g prefix C-a unbind C-b bind C-a send-prefix bind-key o split-window -v bind-key e split-window -h bind-key w kill-pane (to make the command keys same as GNOME Teminator) ...
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Preventing session timeout via ssh/bash/screen/etc?

On this particular server, it seems that it's configured somehow to close a session if there is no activity after a few minutes. I'm looking for a good way to prevent it from timing out via my setup ...
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Getting SMTP timeout on one computer

One of the computers in the office is getting an SMTP connection timeout when trying to send e-mails. All the others seem to work ok. What could be the problem. Using Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 Prof.
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Google blocked in Firefox version 3, other pages fine, works in other browsers

After some time of using Firefox (v.3x) I can no longer access google.com. The page to google.com never loads either from address bar or quick search. If I restart Firefox it works again for a while, ...
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How can I change the connection timeout setting in Firefox?

When I load a page which can't be connected for some reasons, before Firefox shows the error "The connection has timed out", I will wait for about three minutes. I want change the Firefox connection ...
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Putty Network Error: Software caused connection abort

I have a strange problem: when I'm using putty ssh connecting to a linux server hosted in vmware on my local Windows-7, I often get the error saying "Network Error: Software caused connection abort" ...
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Cant Access a site,either from browser, or desktop client

I face a really weird problem. Nobody in our office, can access Yammer. Either the web application, or from the desktop app. I use Ubuntu 10.04. I tried checking the router and modem for blocked IPs ...
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Troubleshooting timeout and login problem, data transfer logging

I can't use gmail or Google log-in enabled openAuth from my browser in Ubuntu, but the same computer (It is a dual boot) works fine for everything in Windows. I connect through a Dynex router, and a ...
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Timeout problem while surfing on the internet

While surfing with any browser (Internet Explorer 8, FireFox v3.6, FireFox v4, Chrome 11, Safari) some pages get timeout randomly. When I try at safe mode it works normally. What can it be? I ...
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Facebook Connect only timeouts on Ubuntu

I recently switched ISPs. One site I visit regularly includes the Facebook Connect JS on it's site - http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1 However, the browser is not downloading the ...

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